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It's analogue to buying a book or movie. Of course you only get a copy of the material.
by bmn__ 6y ago
It's analogue to buying a book or movie. Of course you only get a copy of the material.
- avhon1 6y agoNot necessarily. For example, for about $4,000,000,000, Disney bought Star Wars: the Complete Collection, including all rights and trademarks. Not just copies of the movies, but actual ownership of the concept of "Star Wars", in exchange for nothing more than (a whole lot of) money.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoWell, 4e9 + 7e10, since they had to get both Lucasfilm and Fox to get all the rights for Star Wars.
- fuzxi 6y agoIt's ambiguous. It could refer to buying [a copy of], or buying [the rights to].
- jrochkind1 6y agoI would ordinarily say I bought a copy of The Hobbit, but I guess if I said "Hey I bought The Hobbit the other day", people would assume I meant the book. I'd normally say "I bought a copy of ISO 8601". In this case I think the author thought it was a little funny to say "I bought iso 8601".